August 2013

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Features

ASTRONAUT IN TRAINING

Years before John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth, he was a marine pilot wrangling for more combat action against the Japanese. By Susan Zimmerman

DROWNED IN MYSTERY

The US destroyer Pillsbury disappeared off Java in March 1942. Only her Japanese attackers knew what happened.
Seventy years later, the story is finally told here… By Donald M. Kehn, Jr., with Anthony P. Tully

MANUFACTURING VICTORY

To win the war, America needed heroes at the front—and on the assembly line. The Four Wheel Drive Company of little Clintonville, Wisconsin, had them to spare. By Robert Gabrick

Web Extra: Recording

Glenn Miller’s Work Song

“On the Old Assembly Line,” recorded a week after the Pearl Harbor attack as a tribute-in-advance to the millions of men and women who would keep things running on America’s home front through the war years.